The Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Kuden Kamshak, has said that five cases of Lassa fever have been detected in Jos, the state capital.

He said that the patients were responding to treatment.

Kamshak said, “So far, we have only five cases and they are responding to treatment. We have advised doctors not to keep patients for so long in the hospital to avoid contact and spread.”

The commissioner, who spoke in Jos on Thursday, said that Plateau State had been identified as one of the hotbed of the ailment due to its proximity to most of the Lassa fever endemic states, hence, the need for citizens to maintain a clean and healthy environment.

He added that health officers had been sent to rural communities to sensitise them on the dangers of the disease and the symptoms to look out for

Following the death of a resident doctor at the Maxilofacial Surgery Department at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile Ife, the Osun State government has also placed 55 persons under surveillance.

The Permanent Secretary, Osun State Ministry of Health, Dr. Temitope Oladele, while briefing journalists in his office on Thursday said that the state had created emergency centres to ensure that the disease was contained.

Oladele said the preliminary report of the test carried out on the blood sample of the doctor “came back as compatible with Lassa virus.”

He, however, said the confirmatory test could not be done following his death but he added that the state had gone ahead to prepare to contain the virus.

Oladele said no other case had been found anywhere in the state apart from this index case which according to him was imported from a neighbouring state he declined to mention.

He said, “We have traced 55 persons who he had contact with before his death and we have placed them under surveillance.

“As of today, none of them has shown any symptoms of Lassa fever but we are watching over them to ensure that the disease does not spread.

“We have dedicated lines of those in the emergency centres, the numbers are

08032394921; 08062473160: 08035620234 and 08034175852.”

However, the Ebonyi State government on Thursday denied reports of any outbreak of Lassa fever outbreak, insisting that no case had been recorded.

According to the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Daniel Umezurike, Lassa fever cases can only be ascertained after a laboratory test must have been carried out.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/plateau-confirms-five-fresh-lassa-fever-cases/

Cc; Dominique, lalasticlala

Do not panic. Read all you need to know about this deadly disease @


http://www.latestamebonaija.com/2016/01/all-you-should-know-about-lassa-fever.html?m=1

May God help us

Did I just read where the man said we have only five cases? I pray this doesn't escalate. Together we will defeat it. Government should just stop playing politics with this.

nnachukz:
Did I just read where the man said we have only five cases? I pray this doesn't escalate. Together we will defeat it. Government should just stop playing politics with this.

They play politics with everything.

These government doesn't care about us

Lassa HaemorrhagicFever

Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever.

Both diseases are caused by viruses, I think someone postulated that viruses do not occur naturally in nature, and that all viruses are engineered, is this true?

Na jona fault o

not again

Well, am just thanking God it is not this government that handled ebola

Imagine Rats now threatening Nigerians.. Nawa oo..
Government should take quick measures to eradicate this disease, not just to tell us not drink Garri



#Gbam

Them rat

I wanted to prepare moi moi and gari this afternoon I've changed my mind.

nawa oo...
its Jonathans fault

baba do some thing ,

a

This is bad. Meanwhile, The government of the dull'ard is blaming it on the last administration. Who did the last administration blame for ebola?

yet bubu led government is yet to do anything to curb the spreading....

I can only imagine what will happen if this government was in power during Ebola crisis..

Bird flu came, we conquer
SARS came, we conquer
Ebola came, we conquer..

Lassa u ain't gon' do nofin..
Garrison + smoked fish + chilled water + Jago milk on my mind....
Iyalaya Lassa shiiiittt

Any disease spread through Garri drinking in Nigeria calls for a state of emergency o!

Ordinary lassa they can't control wat ebola. Comes bak wat are we going to do kai God help Nigeria

Lassa!

OPEN LETTER TO LASSA FEVER
Dear Lassa fever,
First of all, ur fada! Now, when Bird flu came, we were told to forsake chicken, we reluctantly obeyed. When Sister Ebola came, we were told to forsake bushmeat, we obeyed. And now u, u jst came & without the fear of God in u, u said we shld forsake garri ....Garri ke?
Do u know how helpful Garri is to Nigerians especially Nigerian students? Honestly, if Nigerians student swear for u, ur tenure no go last reach anoda 1 week. Nonsense!

shhit.. Hope the FG contains this like they contained dasuki and metuh...
MEANWHILE!
I have stop chatting with girls that have rat in their names..
BasiRAT hajaRAT shukuRAT mansuRAT muniRAT kudiRAT
kubuRAT,,because of lassa fever ...
Prevention is beta than cure...

please God not Plateau

God help us.

Soultechy:
These government doesn't care about us

They don't know how to do anything na incompetence be their name instead of resolving this crap they were there waiting for it to get out of hand then started blaming GEJ

Just a few packs of condoms or withdrawal method could have saved us all this nonsense

Plateau State kwa Make i relocate sharply.. Wey night bus dey?

ebubey:
OPEN LETTER TO LASSA FEVER
Dear Lassa fever,
First of all, ur fada! Now, when Bird flu came, we were told to forsake chicken, we reluctantly obeyed. When Sister Ebola came, we were told to forsake bushmeat, we obeyed. And now u, u jst came & without the fear of God in u, u said we shld forsake garri ....Garri ke?
Do u know how helpful Garri is to Nigerians especially Nigerian students? Honestly, if Nigerians student swear for u, ur tenure no go last reach anoda 1 week. Nonsense!

nnachukz:
Did I just read where the man said we have only five cases? I pray this doesn't escalate. Together we will defeat it. Government should just stop playing politics with this.

Considering it's host "Rats", the poor and middle class are the ones vulnerable to the disease. That's why enlightenment about LFD is minimal.

Someone should please respond to this, it happened today: https://www.nairaland.com/2882756/lassa-fever-alert-need-urgent